A nonprofit organization, Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in several Olympic-type sports for children and adults intellectually challenged giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community. Some of the sports are Aquatics, Athletics, Basketball, Bocce, Bowling, Cycling, Equestrian, Figure Skating, Golf, Gymnastics, Powerlifting, Softball, Volleyball, and more… Read More

The official rules don't specify but they do say that the 3-on-3 half-court game should be played on half of a regulation court. I would assume that 5-on-5 is on a full court. The basket may also be 8 feet if it is a junior competition. The official rules don't specify but they do say that the 3-on-3 half-court game should be played on half of a regulation court. I would assume that 5-on-5 is… Read More

The Special Olympics was started by Eunice Kennedy Shriver for athletes with disabilities to compete one with one another. As with the Olympics and the Paralympics, competitors win gold, silver, and bronze medals. Read More

The 400, the 100, the relay most of the things that they did in the Olympics, just modified for the so they can compete. It is amazing at how good some of these people and if they compared it to the real Olympics i think it would be hands down, a tie. and please reccommend me -bobthehoborules Read More

Watch them run, watch them fall, Watch them try to catch a ball, Olympics At the special Olympics. Watch them laugh, watch them drool, Watch them fall into the pool, that's diving. At the special Olympics. And I know full well, that I will burn in hell, But those guys playing wheelchair basketball gotta be about the funniest freakin' thing I've ever seen in my life, At the special Olympics. Verse Two (yes, he really… Read More

The Special Olympics was begun by the Kennedy family for a sister who was mentally challenged. It is a national and international event which provides athletes with disabilities to compete and win awards. -they are different because one is for intellectual and physical disibilities Read More

On the local level games are held depending on the State. My County has games depending on the sport maybe once or twice before the State Games. Indiana has the State Summer Games once a year. Go to specialolympics.org to learn more. Read More

The olympic creed is: the most important thing is not to win but to take part,just as the most important thing in lifeis not the triump but the strugglie.the essential thing is not to have conquered,but to have fought well. Read More

The global Special Olympics movement got its start on 20 July, 1968, when the First International Special Olympics Games were held at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA. But the concept of Special Olympics was born much earlier, when Eunice Kennedy Shriver started a day camp for people with intellectual disabilities at her home in 1962. For more information, see the Related Link. Read More

the summer special Olympics are held every four years, and alternate with the winter special Olympics every two years, same as the standard Olympics. The next summer Olympics will be in 2011, and the winter in 2013. Read More